Tomar Kon Path Diye (The Path of Thy Grace, 1978) has an account of a solo woman on pilgrimage to Kumbh Mela. Her travelogue Truck Bahoney Mac Mahoney depicts her ride on a ration truck across northeast India and Tibet in 1977. Her other notable works included Bama-bodhini, Srestha kabita, and Sita theke suru. She was a well-known children's author in Bengali for her fairy tales and adventure stories, with girls as protagonist, having first written for children in 1979. She was the chief editor of Bengali in the Macmillan's Modern Indian Novels in English Translation series. Recognition Dev Sen received many national and international awards and honours, including: Gouridevi Memorial Award, Mahadevi Verma Award (1992), Celli Award from Rockefeller Foundation (1993), Sarat Award from Bhagalpur University of Bihar (1994), Prasad Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi Award (1999). She has also received Rabindra Puraskar, Kabir Samman, Samskriti Award, Kamal Kumari National Award (2004), Mystic Kalinga Literary Award (2017), and the Big Little Book Award for children's literature in 2017, when the award focused on Bengali writing. She was awarded the Padma Shri (2000), the fourth highest civilian award by the Government of India. Personal life and death In 1959, she married Amartya Sen, an economist and academician and then a Lecturer of Economics at the Jadavpur University, who would be awarded the Nobel Prize four decades later. She moved to Britain with Sen and they became the parents of two daughters, Antara Dev Sen and Nandana Sen. After her divorce in 1976, she returned to Calcutta with her daughters. She had one adopted daughter Srabasti Basu. Her hobbies included reading, records, and travelling. In addition to Bengali and English, she could read Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, French, German, Greek, Sanskrit, and Hebrew. She died on 7 November 2019 in Kolkata following cancer. References External links 1938 births 2019 deaths Amartya Sen Presidency University, Kolkata alumni University of Calcutta alumni Bengali writers Indian women novelists Indian women poets Writers from Kolkata Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Bengali Jadavpur University alumni Recipients of the Padma Shri in literature & education 20th-century Indian novelists Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 20th-century Indian poets 20th-century Indian women writers Women writers from West Bengal 21st-century Indian women writers 21st-century Indian novelists 21st-century Indian poets Poets from West Bengal Novelists from West Bengal Indiana University alumni Indian children's writers Indian short story writers Indian travel